November 20, 2017
Students enrolled in four Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) health programs - Dental Hygiene, Respiratory Care, Licensed Practical Nurse, and Physical Therapist Assistant - have achieved a 100-percent licensure/certification exam pass rate for the most recent reporting period (FY2016), according to BCCC data reported to the Maryland Higher Education Commission this fall. The numbers also show the college is experiencing strength in the number of graduates who transfer to four-year institutions, and stunning growth in its workforce development program as large numbers of people flock to BCCC to improve their prospects at work. According to the data, BCCC students are doing better and accomplishing more.
In FY2016, 48 percent of all BCCC graduates transferred to a four-year institution. Of 238 graduates who participated in a BCCC Career Pathway designed to develop core academic, technical and employability competencies and then transferred at any point, 59 percent majored in Social and Behavioral Sciences; 43 percent in Business; 24 percent in the Pre-health professions; and 66 percent in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The majority of the transfers (58 percent) went to Coppin State University, the University of Baltimore, and Morgan State University.
As the college places renewed emphasis on workforce development and the ability of Baltimore residents to get jobs, the numbers also suggest dynamic growth at BCCC's downtown Workforce Development and Continuing Education division: From FY2014 to FY2017, enrollment in BCCC noncredit workforce development courses has risen 148 percent, from 1,061 to 2,628, according to the data. And newly arriving peoples to Baltimore availed themselves of BCCC English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses, which grew 6 percent among the relatively large number of people who took the courses - from 3,537 to 3,765 - from FY2016 to FY2017 .
The college services 16,049 credit and noncredit students as of FY2017.
